Word: bohemianized
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...called in an expert diagnostician last week, and revived the old Hoover Commission on government reorganization. Summoned to Washington once more, Old Diagnostician Herbert Hoover, 78, was willing, if-not pleased. "I took this job against my better judgment," he told reporters. "I'm back here from the Bohemian Grove [a private camp in California], where I was having a good time." To assist Hoover on' the twelve-man commission, the President named an erstwhile political foe of the ex-President: James A. Farley. Other commissioners: Attorney General Brownell, Defense Mobilization Director Arthur Flemming...
...papers, Burck says: "I had been waiting in line a long time [for my final papers]. Suddenly I recalled that I had a cartoon to draw for the next day's editions." Staffers on the Sun-Times support his whimsical explanation, point out that Burck is a "real bohemian," disorganized in everything he does. Even his cartoons are always half finished until his editors "start putting the heat...
...Communist world since Stalin's death seemed to be just what the new U.S. administration was waiting for-a first-class internal crisis in the Soviet empire. This week Russian tanks alone maintained Communist rule in East Berlin. In Czechoslovakia, nearly half the miners in the North Bohemian coal fields refused to report for work. Rumors of wholesale rioting drifted out of Poland. In Hungary, a new Premier tried to placate the people with a promise to pay more attention to the welfare of farmers and consumers. Nervously, the Soviet government ordered its ambassadors and proconsular in Washington, London...
...Casanova expert, retired Journalist Gino Damerini, was immediately called in. He said the costume was typical of the dandified Casanova; other experts testified that it was surely Casanova, with the same heavy eyelids, arrogant nose and sensual lips. The painter, according to the experts: Raphael Mengs, an 18th century Bohemian master...
...wife. She is also a prim and proper neo-Victorian with a habit of regarding duty and pleasure as synonymous. Dinah is an apostle of self-expression, always dressing and undressing her mind to suit the latest intellectual fashion, from Picasso to Kierkegaard. "On visits and at her Bohemian parties, she makes an impression on Rickie. Pretty soon, Rickie's business engagements are mostly monkey business. Torn between his obligations to Madeleine and his two young sons, and the emotional release he feels with Dinah, Rickie's conscience and his stomach both begin hurting...